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Out of Hibernation and Back to Work
« on: March 06, 2021, 06:06:08 pm »
Beautiful 40° day (5° “metricated”  ;)  :D )


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Re: Out of Hibernation and Back to Work
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2021, 06:11:26 pm »
I love the old Allis Nick; I had one a few years ago that I slung a mid-mounted mower deck underneath. Then I ‘loaned’ it to someone; last I heard it was used to launch and retrieve a boat at the seaside somewhere.
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Re: Out of Hibernation and Back to Work
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2021, 06:19:08 pm »
She’s a good runner! Lives outside year round, was parked November 1st last year and had a couple feet of snow on it the past few months, but started on the 4th or 5th crank

Walter, wanna “loan” me a few engines?  ;)  :D
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« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2021, 06:54:52 pm »
Nick...I am Far from a tree identification expert....but it appears you are turning a Black Walnut tree into humble firewood heating fuel?...please say it isn't so Nick? :o
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Re: Out of Hibernation and Back to Work
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2021, 07:03:12 pm »
Quote from: ShadetreeMotorcycle on March 06, 2021, 06:54:52 pm
Nick...I am Far from a tree identification expert....but it appears you are turning a Black Walnut tree into humble firewood heating fuel?...please say it isn't so Nick? :o

Haha, just the small branches, I have 5 logs from this tree alone that I will be milling and hopefully a year or so from now will supply me with plenty of steam toy bases.

What you see in the wood pile is circled in red, the rest was saved. I have lived with these 2 black walnuts above my driveway for 5 years now. The first spring I trimmed them WAY up and wanted to save them because they are over 80 years old, maybe older BUT I am absolutely sick of walnuts all over the driveway, on the cars and the squirrels hiding them everywhere possible. This tree has been half dead since I have lived here, the bottom is losing bark, it’s infested with ants and it only gets about half its leaves and fills a large rolling garbage can 3 times with walnuts every year. Even with all these flaws, it was not an easy decision to take it down.

And by the way, I get $125/face cord for that humble firewood  ;)

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Re: Out of Hibernation and Back to Work
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2021, 07:12:01 pm »
Did you heap the snow up there on purpose @Nick ; just in case you take a dive off the ladder  :D
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Re: Out of Hibernation and Back to Work
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2021, 07:16:12 pm »
Quote from: Damnfmaschine on March 06, 2021, 07:12:01 pm
Did you heap the snow up there on purpose @Nick ; just in case you take a dive off the ladder  :D

Kids (and my) sledding hill  ;)  and yes, that was use #2 just in case 😂

(Worked good so I didn’t have to carry out the other half of the ladder... those wooden ladders are not light!  :D )
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Re: Out of Hibernation and Back to Work
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2021, 07:30:28 pm »
Quote from: Nick on March 06, 2021, 07:03:12 pm
Quote from: ShadetreeMotorcycle on March 06, 2021, 06:54:52 pm
Nick...I am Far from a tree identification expert....but it appears you are turning a Black Walnut tree into humble firewood heating fuel?...please say it isn't so Nick? :o

Haha, just the small branches, I have 5 logs from this tree alone that I will be milling and hopefully a year or so from now will supply me with plenty of steam toy bases.

What you see in the wood pile is circled in red, the rest was saved. I have lived with these 2 black walnuts above my driveway for 5 years now. The first spring I trimmed them WAY up and wanted to save them because they are over 80 years old, maybe older BUT I am absolutely sick of walnuts all over the driveway, on the cars and the squirrels hiding them everywhere possible. This tree has been half dead since I have lived here, the bottom is losing bark, it’s infested with ants and it only gets about half its leaves and fills a large rolling garbage can 3 times with walnuts every year. Even with all these flaws, it was not an easy decision to take it down.

And by the way, I get $125/face cord for that humble firewood  ;)

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Nothing wrong with humble firewood, my family farm has been heated exclusively with it for 50 years.
  I am paying $50 to $65 per face cord here in Michigan for oak, that's what we like...has lots of BTU but my stove will burn most any wood dryer than 15% water prefured around 9%
  I would go $150 on a face cord (delivered) of black walnut... No idea what the BTU are as it never occurred to me to burn it, we call it black gold around here... Think I see a few candle sticks, ink pen blanks and turning stock in there somewhere...lol
  Just teasing....shoot.. I heard them poor folks in Texas was burning there furniture to keep warm in the 100 year storm.
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Re: Out of Hibernation and Back to Work
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2021, 07:40:57 pm »
I have never gone less than $125 on the black walnut (no delivery, they drive here and I help them load). I start at $125/face cord on my oak, usually around 15% moisture, always tested under 20%. When the selling slows down I drop to $115 or $100. My house was $96 to heat during the coldest month this year, so all my firewood gets burned by others. I have quite a few repeat customers and run out every year as they like that I keep my pieces all at 16” and split it small. I love to cut and split firewood, just don’t have a use for it  :D

I have helped on full size sawmills powered by steam, but this will be my first attempt at milling my own... I bought a Granberg Alaskan Chainsaw Mill a year ago, so should be fun to try... If anything, I’ll have some very nicely cut firewood 😂
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Re: Out of Hibernation and Back to Work
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2021, 10:01:56 pm »
Face cord????

Metricate !!!!

 ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D
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Re: Out of Hibernation and Back to Work
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2021, 10:09:33 pm »
Quote from: Jim on March 06, 2021, 10:01:56 pm
Face cord????

Metricate !!!!

 ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

40.64 centimeter sticks, stacked 1.2192 meters tall by 2.4384 meters long 😂

(In this case 16” pieces stacked 4 feet x 8 feet sounds better  ;) 😂 )
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Re: Out of Hibernation and Back to Work
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2021, 10:11:23 pm »
Quote from: Nick on March 06, 2021, 10:09:33 pm
Quote from: Jim on March 06, 2021, 10:01:56 pm
Face cord????

Metricate !!!!

 ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

40.64 centimeter sticks, stacked 1.2192 meters tall by 2.4384 meters long 😂

(In this case 16” pieces stacked 4 feet x 8 feet sounds better  ;) 😂 )

LOL :)

Face Cord....that's something that I had never heard before. Had to Google it :)
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Re: Out of Hibernation and Back to Work
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2021, 10:11:38 pm »
This is how full a face cord will fill your convertible (tossed in, not stacked)  ;)

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Re: Out of Hibernation and Back to Work
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2021, 10:12:35 pm »
Quote from: Jim on March 06, 2021, 10:11:23 pm
Face Cord....that's something that I had never heard before. Had to Google it :)

Technically it is not a legal unit of measure according to the state of MN. When I talked to them about selling, it has to be sold as 1/3 of a cord
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Re: Out of Hibernation and Back to Work
« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2021, 10:15:07 pm »
Quote from: Nick on March 06, 2021, 10:11:38 pm
This is how full a face cord will fill your convertible (tossed in, not stacked)  ;)

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Don't worry....I've shown this to a few mates just to see the look on their faces :) :) :)

They all asked "Does he drive around town like that"??? and I said "Hell yeah" :) :)
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